BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB
862 (Committee on Agriculture)
As Amended June 25, 2015
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: | 74-0 | (May 22, |SENATE: |38-0 |(August 20, |
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Original Committee Reference: AGRI.
SUMMARY: Makes clarifying and substantive changes to the Food
and Agricultural Code (FAC) in regard to citrus pest and disease
prevention expenditure reimbursements and would add "cultivated
mushrooms" and "herbs" to the list of products that cannot be
sold in areas in proximity to a Certified Farmers' Market (CFM).
This bill makes other technical changes.
The Senate amendments add language from AB 1135 (Perea) of the
current legislative session, that was heard and approved by the
Assembly Agriculture Committee.
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.
COMMENTS: This is the Assembly Agriculture Committee's Omnibus
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bill to make corrections and provide clarifications to the codes
on agricultural matters. The provisions of this measure are
non-controversial, have no opposition, and have been vetted with
the appropriate agencies and industry groups.
SB 1018 (De León), Chapter 924, Statutes of 2014, specified that
only reasonable, rather than all, expenditures incurred by the
California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), be
reimbursed from the Citrus Disease Management Account for
responsibilities related to the Citrus Pest and Disease
Prevention Program. This bill changes this restriction so that
all program costs may be reimbursed to CDFA.
AB 1871 (Dickinson), Chapter 579, Statutes of 2014, rewrote and
updated the provisions for CFMs, increased the fees, expanded
the violations, strengthened enforcement and restricted the sale
of agricultural products in ancillary markets adjacent to a CFM,
all at the request of CFM managers and participating farmers.
In reviewing this statute, it was discovered that there were
errors in the language, which this bill corrects. Cultivated
mushrooms and herbs were omitted as prohibited agricultural
products for sale in non-CFMs, and the registration process for
certifying a farmer was missing the oversight of the county
agricultural commissioners.
This bill also makes technical and clarifying corrections to
FAC.
Analysis Prepared by:
Jim Collin / AGRI. / (916) 319-2084 FN: 0001451
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